Thoughts While Listening To Some Ron Paul Supporters Debating Whether To Support Rand Paul
By Mitch Berg
CHUCK (a city councilman): Hey, the hardware store is on fire! Everybody grab a hose and a bucket!
BILL: Enh. All politicians are corrupt!
CHUCK: Yeah, but the hardware store! Lots of flammable paint! If it goes, all of Mainstreet burns down!
FRANK: All politicians are corrupt!
CHUCK: Right, right, you don’t like politicians, I get it. But all of your jobs are about to go up in smoke…
AL: To pretend there’s any difference between one politician and another is just stupid.
CHUCK: Right, right, got that. Look…actual fire, here. Needs to get put out. Are you hearing me…
STEVE: they’re all crony capitalists…
(Crowd natters away as a large “FOOOM” sound is heard, as the hardware store disappears in a large, multicolored gout of flame)
BILL: See! What good did politicians do?
BILL: Enh. All politicians are corrupt!
CHUCK: Yeah, but the hardware store! Lots of flammable paint! If it goes, all of Mainstreet burns down!
FRANK: All politicians are corrupt!
CHUCK: Right, right, you don’t like politicians, I get it. But all of your jobs are about to go up in smoke…
AL: To pretend there’s any difference between one politician and another is just stupid.
CHUCK: Right, right, got that. Look…actual fire, here. Needs to get put out. Are you hearing me…
STEVE: they’re all crony capitalists…
(Crowd natters away as a large “FOOOM” sound is heard, as the hardware store disappears in a large, multicolored gout of flame)
BILL: See! What good did politicians do?
August 10th, 2015 at 8:03 am
Iron logic
August 10th, 2015 at 1:36 pm
Populism is a two-edged sword. You have to wonder how many of those who made their political bones railing against the so-called “establishment” ever considered that someday the same kind of Orwellian hate would be directed at them when their supporters invariably became disillusioned and disappointed in them as well.